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A Teenage Murder and the Question of 'Normal' Masculinity
Ken Corbett, clinical assistant professor at the New York University postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and the author of A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High (Henry Holt and Co., 2016), draws on his expertise with issues of gender and sexuality, and examines a murder of a possibly transgender teenager by a fellow student to unpack the crime and the public's response.